Comment Re:Old Tech Costs? (Score 1) 204
Was it cheaper when they did it all with paper files?
Yes, but mostly because there were a lot fewer people back then. (Remember, that even sorting is O(N log N) -- and you have to do that to get the right papers in the right files. I would guess that there needs to be lots of O(N^2) operations to catch fraud. 300,000 Americans is a big N.